The Egyptian Wanderers: A Story for Children of the Great Tenth Persecution

A Story for Children of the Great Tenth PersecutionA"Why should I speak of the multitude of them that wandered in deserts and mountains, and perished by hunger, and thirst, and cold, and diseases, and robbers, and wild beasts?—of whose victory those among them that were survivors are witnesses. But I will produce one of these occurrences as an example.” –Eusebius Ecclesiastical History vi. 42."The following story is based on that passage of Eusebius, which I have quoted as its motto: 'That during the fury of the persecution the Egyptian Deserts were filled with confessors, most of whom perished there, is abundantly testified by that historian, who had himself visited Alexandria while the remembrance of their sufferings was yet fresh. The anecdotes occasionally introduced are with one exception, taken from the early ecclesiastical historians, or from the Martyrologies."~John Mason Neale, Sackville College, March 16, 1854This story begins at the library of St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, where the narrator finds an ancient tattered volume telling of one family's struggle of faith as they flee into the Egyptian wilderness during the tenth great persecution of Rome. An adventure story to be remembered and captivating read-aloud. Gently edited for the modern reader.